Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Principles without programs are platitudes.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.